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2 IRGC members shot dead at home in Iran, in what state media calls 'terrorism'
The Times of Israel • • world
Key Points:
- Two members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed and two wounded in a shooting at their home in Paveh, near the Iraq border, with the perpetrators not immediately identified.
- Iranian state media and IRGC outlets blamed "anti-government and separatist" groups, often linked by Tehran to Kurdish separatists and accused of ties to the US and Israel, for the attack.
- The IRGC announced it had dismantled a team of separatist operatives who had crossed into Iran from the northwestern border, showing blurred images of four alleged militants killed in the operation.
- Separately, a family vehicle was attacked in Saravan, Sistan-Baluchistan province, killing both parents, with Iranian state media accusing "Zionist-American mercenaries," a term used for separatist militants, of responsibility.
- Sistan-Baluchistan, a poor province with a Sunni ethnic Baloch population, has a history of violence involving security forces, insurgents, and drug smugglers along its borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan.
